Texture-ing

March 6, 2011

Occasionally I like to add a texture layer to my pictures. It’s pretty easy to do, you just have to create or find a texture to use. If you search Flickr for “free texture” you’ll find thousands. Or you can take pictures yourself and create your own (which I do).

Here’s an example of how I do it.

Above is the image as shot.

This is the image after I crop and clone out rocks and junk that bug me

This is the texture picture I used ~ I opened it up and then dragged it onto the the beach image.

I then set the texture layer to “multiply”

This is how it looked. I decided it was too dark so I added a curve adjustment layer and pulled
it up in the middle to lighten the whole picture. I also added a gradient map adjustment layer
at 27% opacity to desaturate it a bit.